{"id":26670,"date":"2012-11-25T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26670"},"modified":"2016-04-01T16:16:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T16:16:19","slug":"the-mischling-experience-in-oral-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26670","title":{"rendered":"The Mischling Experience in Oral History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/ohr\/ohn025\" target=\"_blank\">The Mischling Experience in Oral History<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ohr.oxfordjournals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Oral History Review<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ohr.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/35\/2.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 35, Issue 2<\/a> (2008)<br \/>\npages 139-158<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/ohr\/ohn025\" target=\"_blank\">10.1093\/ohr\/ohn025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/people\/peter.monteath\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Monteath<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This paper examines the usefulness of oral history in dealing with the fate of the so-called <em>Mischlinge<\/em> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nazi_Germany\" target=\"_blank\">Nazi Germany<\/a>; that is, people categorized by the authorities as being of \u201cmixed race.\u201d It argues that oral history provides an invaluable supplement to the written, official record. The latter is by its nature a view \u201cfrom above\u201d and from the perpetrators; it generally excludes the perspective of the victims of Nazi racial policy. Moreover, as an overview of the treatment of <em>Mischlinge<\/em> demonstrates, there were stark discrepancies between policy and practice which are difficult to comprehend on the basis of the written record alone, but which are well exemplified through a study of individual experiences. The paper uses several examples of such experiences collected from three separate video testimony repositories to analyze the nature of those experiences, detecting discrepancies between official policy and practice and observing the considerable variations in the nature and harshness of those experiences. Finally, the oral history record is found to be invaluable in tracing some of the longer-term consequences of the Third Reich for surviving <em>Mischlinge<\/em>, especially in terms of their constructions of identity and the ways in which, for the period after the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" target=\"_blank\">Second World War<\/a>, they dealt with the ascribed identities which had so heavily impacted them in their early years.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/ohr.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/35\/2\/139.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mischling Experience in Oral History The Oral History Review Volume 35, Issue 2 (2008) pages 139-158 DOI: 10.1093\/ohr\/ohn025 Peter Monteath, Associate Professor of History Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia This paper examines the usefulness of oral history in dealing with the fate of the so-called Mischlinge in Nazi Germany; that is, people categorized by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,459,8],"tags":[2948,12867,12866,969],"class_list":["post-26670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-history","category-media-archive","tag-germany","tag-oral-history-review","tag-the-oral-history-review","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46397,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26670\/revisions\/46397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}